Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner

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Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner
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Department overview
Formed 1882 (1882)
Jurisdiction Los Angeles County, California
Headquarters Boyle Heights, California
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Employees 209 (2010)[1]
Annual budget $28,797,000 (2010)[1]
Department executive
  • Mark A. Fajardo, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner
Parent department Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Website coroner.lacounty.gov
Los Angeles County Coroner Building in 2008

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner (formerly the Department of Coroner) was created in its present form in Boyle Heights on December 7, 1990 by an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, though it has existed in some form since the late 19th century. On September 3, 2013, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the name change for the department, from the Department of the Coroner to the Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner.[2]

On July 9, 2013, the Board of Supervisors approved the appointment of Mark A. Fajardo, the Chief Forensic Pathologist at Riverside County, as the new Medical Examiner-Coroner, at an annual salary of $275,000.[3] He formally replaced Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, who served 21 years as the Coroner, in August 2013.[4]

List of coroners

References

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